Although it is a bit deep for first thing on a Monday morning, let me just flag this short Tom Shakespeare talk for Radio Four up. In it, Professor Shakespeare discusses recent advances in prenatal screening, and their ethical ramifications. It might soon be possible to accurately screen for conditions like Downs Syndrome and Muscular Dystrophy, opening the possibility that far fewer babies will be born with such disabilities. In doing so, we enter a labyrinth of ethical dilemmas: while life with a disability can be harder than others, and the severity of any disability can vary hugely, most disabled people live full, productive lives. Most of us are happy as we are; we wouldn’t want to wish away our disabilities. I certainly don’t, as I believe it would take away a fundamental part of what makes me, me. While eradicating disability might at first glance seem like a good idea, in doing so we would strip society of part of it’s diversity: like skin colour and religion, disability adds to the variety of humanity. Thus, Shakespeare raises some interesting questions; questions which, as he says, we are increasingly having to deal with as medical science advances.